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The perfect week upheld the first men's speed race, a lot of snow, sunny weather and crowd around the mountain.

Norvegian Aksel Lund Svindal return after injury that kept him out all of last season, won the first Downhill Race following by 1/100 of second from Italian Peter Fill, third position American Travis Ganong.

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The men Skiworldcup Opening on the Rettenbachferner Glacier was a big success as well. Snow conditions were perfect and the weather fantastic. The GS slope was top prepared: hard, partly icy, good grip. A big accolade to the organisers!

The 5th of 9 races of the Tour de Ski was held in Toblach (South Tyrol). The women held a short distance race of 3 km, the men of 5 km against time. In the men’s race, Alexander Legkov (RUS) emphasized his ambitions and proved worthy to be counted as a favourite. He gets better with every race and won his first race in this tour. Eldar Roenning (NOR), traditional style specialist, reached second place before Dario Cologna (SUI) who took over the jersey for the general leading position from Petter Northug (NOR).